Israeli soldiers abducted, overnight and on earlier Monday, at least twenty-three Palestinians, including nine children between the ages of nine and fifteen, during massive invasions and searches of homes in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem.

Odai Abu Sa’ad, Daoud al-Ghoul and Mahmoud Salah are former political prisoners, while the latter is the brother of Ahmad Salah, who was killed by the army in October 2015, while al-Ghoul is a former political prisoner.

In the Old city of Jerusalem, the soldiers invaded many homes and assaulted Mousa Abdul-Salam Kamil and his family, while violently searching their property. In Al-Jiftlik town, in the Jericho Governate, the soldiers abducted four siblings, and later released three of them, and took the fourth, identified as Jom’a Jahalin, to a detention and interrogation center.

In Jenin Governate, in the northern part of the West Bank, the soldiers abducted Luay Qassem Zakarna, Mahmoud Abu ar-Rob, Mahmoud Abu Ein, and Mousa Abdul-Salam Kamil.

The soldiers also invaded and ransacked many homes in Azzoun town, east of Jenin, and interrogated several Palestinians while searching their properties. Two of them have been identified as Ali Rasheed Radwan and Sufian Abu Sharaf.

It is worth mentioning that Azzoun has lately been subject to constant invasions by Israeli soldiers and illegal colonialist settlers, while the army also invaded shops and homes, causing significant damage, and abducted many Palestinians.

Furthermore, resident Ali Bassel Adwan, from Azzoun Atma town, was abducted while crossing a military roadblock installed by the soldiers at the main entrance of the town.

In Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, the soldiers abducted four Palestinians, identified as Ateyya az-Zaro Tamimi, 42, his son Kifah, 20, Anas Bilal Natsha, 16, who was injured after the soldiers assaulted him in his home, and field researcher Hasan Salameen, 45, while working in the Old City.

In Bethlehem, the soldiers abducted a Saher Nafeth Thawabta, from Beit Fajjar town, south of the city, after invading his home and searching it.

In addition, the soldiers abducted Abdul-Hakim Hamed, 27, from Silwad town in the Ramallah Governate, in central West Bank, as he was crossing the al-Karama border crossing with Jordan, on his way back home.

On Sunday evening, the soldiers abducted six children from occupied Jerusalem, and later released two identified as Jihad Haddad, 9, and Suleiman Kanaan, 9.

The four children who remained in custody have been identified as Qussai Dirbas, 12, Anas Mahmoud, 12, Yazan Nouri, 13, and Yacoub Dabbagh, 15.

A right-wing Knesset member intends to submit a “racist” bill calling for economically punishing families of Palestinian children and teenagers who are convicted of throwing stones and launching attacks against Israelis.

According to Walla news website, the bill, which was prepared by MK Miki Zohar (Likud), will be referred to the Knesset’s ministerial commission for legislation on Sunday in order to obtain approval for tabling it for vote by Knesset members.

Zohar claimed that making families responsible for their children’s actions is part of what he described as Israel’s fight against terrorism.

He also said that Israel should deprive families of Palestinian attackers of all national insurance allowances, including unemployment benefits, pensions and work-injury payments.

This new legislation is only aimed at the Palestinians. The Israeli authorities have never taken any punitive measures, such as demolition of homes, against Jewish families, whose relatives were convicted of attacking Palestinians.

A Palestinian human rights group has reported the occurrence of 500 arrest incidents by the Israeli occupation forces against Palestinians last November in different areas of the occupied territories including Gaza Strip.

Among the detainees were 110 children and teenagers under age 18 as well as 14 girls and women, according to report released by the Palestinian Prisoner Center for Studies on Thursday.

14 citizens from Gaza, including eight fishermen, were also among those captives.

Israeli military and security forces carried out those arrests during the reporting month.

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, late at night and on Wednesday at dawn, fourteen Palestinians, including several children, in different parts of the West Bank, including in occupied East Jerusalem.

The Hebron office of the PPS, in the southern part of the West Bank, said the soldiers have abducted five Palestinians, including three children from the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, after invading their homes and violently searching them.

In related news, the soldiers invaded ‘Aneen village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and abducted one Palestinian, identified as Mohammad Mousa Yassin, in addition to detaining many Palestinians at a roadblock the army installed on the main road of Zabbouba village.

In Tulkarem, in the northern part of the West Bank, the soldiers searched homes and abducted one Palestinian, identified as Baha-Eddin Nathmi Jayyousi, 25. On Tuesday at night, the soldiers invaded many Palestinian homes in the central West Bank district of Ramallah and al-Biereh, and abducted seven Palestinians, including three children.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, two siblings from Hebron city, in the southern part of the West Bank, and one Palestinian near Tulkarem.

The Hebron office of PPS, in the southern part of the West Bank, said the soldiers invaded and searched many homes, in various neighborhoods throughout the city, and abducted two siblings.

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday morning, a young Palestinian man from ‘Aneen village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and detained many Palestinians at a roadblock the army installed on the main road of Zabbouba village.

The Jenin office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said the soldiers abducted Mohammad Mahmoud Yassin, near the gate of the Annexation Wall, built on villagers’ lands.

The soldiers interrogated the Palestinian at the roadblock, while inspecting his ID card, and took him to a nearby military base.

In addition, the army stopped and searched dozens of cars, and searched them, while interrogating many Palestinians and inspecting their ID cards.

The soldiers took the license plate numbers of dozens of cars, and prevented the Palestinians from entering or leaving ‘Aneen, and issue that forced the drivers to take alternative, longer and unpaved roads.

The Israeli army claimed the closure came after several Palestinians hurled stones at military vehicles, and destroyed a section of the Annexation Wall.

The Israeli Central Court in occupied Jerusalem decided Tuesday to postpone the trial of two Jerusalemite minors till January 15, 2017.

The 13-year-old Jerusalemite minors Ahmed Zaatari and Shadi Farah were arrested in December 2015 for allegedly trying to carry out a stabbing attack.

Since then, they were held in a juvenile detention facility within the Green Line.

Family sources affirmed that the court decided to postpone the two detainees’ trial till January 2017 for unknown reasons.

According to DCI-Palestine, Israel held 440 Palestinian children in custody at the end of February 2016, more than twice the monthly average since 2011 and the highest number at any given point since the Israel Prison Service began releasing data in 2008.